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Encore!!

But next time in a form of 13×24 minutes long series, rather than a 90 minutes long movie.
To make it clear, how I was able to watch this movie ahead of you. Anilogue filmfestival is being held in Budapest and Vienna, and one of the premier movies was King of Thorn, and I managed to get my hands on a ticket ^^

Now back to the review.

As I mentioned first of, this was a really-really eventful movie squeezed in a very short 90 minutes.

Story:
... In 2015 a new virus called meduesa raises it's head and spreads worldwide, leaving noone alive who's caught by this epidemic.
However a pharmaceutical company, offers 160 choosen one to be put in deep sleep, to ensure their survival, until a cure is found. But something goes wrong, very wrong.
That's where the new story of The sleeping beuty begins.
And it makes you really want to know, what is different in this story, from the fairy-tale version. The princess has a lot more role (more [and maybe someone else], than you'd thought!! just wait until the last 75 minutes !!!), but the princes weren't cut out from the cast-list either...
The story would had had a lot more to tell about the circimstances, and the personalities of our "knights", "servants", "gatekeepers", but we'll have to be satisfied with the adventure and the princess' story int this short 90 minutes.

Art:
Sunrise Need I say more. Oh, yess!!! And I'm not saying this, because of my approvement.
The creatures were fit to be animated in CG, but, by some parts (mainly gunfights) are little crew went through a little CG-fication too, witch would had been acceptable, if it would have appeared only in gunfights, but somehow, they've put some of these technical solutions in simple dialogues, and running sceens, witch was a bit irritating, that they changed from one cut to the next into a blockhead, strife-haired, bottomless-pit mouthed characters. But it didn't kill the atmosphere, it was just, not unnoticable.

Sound:
Nothing to complain here (or I might be the stick-eared one). It reale made the atmosphere, what it ment to be felt like. Maybe at the end it was a bit more fittable for a Disney film's summit, but it didn't break the pot.

Character:
160 -153 killed right off leaving 3 knights (a former policeman, a prisoner [lookalike], a scientist) a fool, a maid etc.
As I mentioned before, they don't really develop, only our "princess", and maybe the 3rd "knight", maybe a bit by the "maid", but it's really regrettable that the movie was cut so short. So no big progress by the crew, manly just by the "princess"

Enjoyment:
Overall, it was great, but left me there with alot of other questions in the middle of nowhere. Okay, they weren't so cruicial, but I would had been really curious about the "who?"s, the "why?"s, the "how?"s. I really was amased by the climax (no not the flying thingy, but the "truth") of the movie, I've almost sh*t bricks. However the film was so short, it didn't have the time to develop, escalate, and expand itself so, that this climax would had a really Big-Boom effect. Still this climax one of the few WTF moments of my anime history.

Really good movie, but surely would had much more pontential, in a form of a 13 episodes long series.


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It wasn't, what I was waiting for seeing the cover of the series, but it didn't disappoint me (((too much))) either.

After seeing the cover of the anime, I was hoping for some chaotic atmosphere and a postapocaliptic Tokyo scene, but it seems for that wish of mine the title would had been Tokyo Magnitude 10 instead of "just" 8.0.
Aside from the setting, nothing is really special. If you want to think about it as a documentary film, it doesn't have much aspect of it, and neither can I say it's a slice of life, 'cause it's not a common thing going home after ... a huge tremor.
It's unique, but has really nothing special.
It's similar to most of the anime which have journey as the backbone of the plot. This is where the documentary appeal comes in. It's real! No super robots, no magic etc. It's a pure 'what would happen if' anime
And throwing in this "little" twist at the 10th episode... It was really unexpected, but the creators might have thought, this will spin up the story a bit. Well it did leave a bitter taste in my mouth though. However it wasn't such a strong shock, that I had to cry my teacup full of tears.

Sum-up:
+ Presenting Tokyo after an 8.0 magnitude earthqueke was a good idea
- Cheap explanation for the tragedy